Saturday, July 10, 2010

Good Morning everyone! I hope you're enjoying your weekend so far. Last night I spent the evening chatting with a few of the girls over at the TSG Friday Night Chat forum. That was a lot of fun. While I was chatting with them I made a card to participate in a few challenges.
The challenges this is for are:Friday Sketchers - the sketchFussy and Fancy - Christmas in JulyJust Magnolia - recipe 3 flowers, 2 papers, 1 ribbon

I like non-traditional colors for Christmas, so this was fun. I was sad that my image was still too big to see a lot of the detail of the beautiful papers I used. But I liked the overal effect, so I didn't start over. Not to mention, when the supplies come from a kit, you don't have much room for do-overs.

This is a swatch of one of the papers - I loved this! Pinwheel, yet sort of snowflake type flowers. I wanted to re-create this look and with some thick vellum and a lot of trial and error, I did!

I made my own flowers. In retrospect, I should have put glitter on them and I still might - but not for these photos. In this photo you can also see the little white stitching I added for one of the elements in the sketch.

Oh Mel! Love this card, it is so stinkin cute. I love that image and how you coloured it and matched it to those papers. I love traditional colors but you know sometimes folks can just pick the right non-traditional colors and make it scream Christmas. You have mastered this by far. Thanks for filling my day with inspiration and reminding me that I need to get started on Christmas Cards.

How fun that you got some time to chat with friends and craft, Mel -- just what you needed, I bet! Your card is so ADORABLE (and making me feel like I need to get on the ball about Christmas -- LOL!) What a fun idea to make your own vellum flowers to tie in with the paper pattern -- very clever of you! Hugs, Deedee

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I am a mother of 3 amazing young adults! I am a proud momma of a Navy Sailor, a 2nd year college student and a boy entering college soon. In my spare time, I love to cook, read, stamp and make 3D paper projects. I've been a papercrafter for 22+ years and I love every minute of it. I decided I didn't have enough to do, so I also "own" a challenge blog, Tuesday Morning Sketches.
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